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L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
6 months ago
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
TheCollector
The History and Beauty of the Moscow Metro
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Gap Week: August 2, 2024
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
5 months ago
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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Classical Wisdom
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
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Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
TheCollector
Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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TheCollector
The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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7 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
History Today Feed
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
TheCollector
HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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TheCollector
What Are the 7 Most Spoken Languages in the World?
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a year ago
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...
2 weeks ago
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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Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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What Did Americans Eat During the Great Depression?
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A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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Iakim Volkov’s Wedding: An Illustration of a Complicated History
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10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
TheCollector
How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
a year ago
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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Would You Kill the Fat Man?
Ethical Philosophy for Fun
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Ethical Philosophy for Fun
TheCollector
How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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a year ago
African History...
A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)
Urbanism in the forest region.
a year ago
Urbanism in the forest region.
TheCollector
Monet’s London Paintings to Reunite After 120 Years
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The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
And the Palace where it was found...
a year ago
And the Palace where it was found...
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
7 months ago
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
TheCollector
The Extraordinary Story of Dido Elizabeth Belle
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The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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5 Transformative Leaders That Shaped British History
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Trying to Understand...
My Substack in Other Languages.
Starting with Spanish.
a year ago
TheCollector
Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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6 months ago
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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10 months ago
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French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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11 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
hello fujisan
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and...
over a year ago
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
Flashbak
At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
11 months ago
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
Flashbak
Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a...
a year ago
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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3 Dark Age Kings of Britain Confirmed by Archaeology
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What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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Flashbak
Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
a month ago
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it presented creations by such couturiers as Louise Chéruit, Premet (best known for La Garconne, or The Flapper, a black dress with a white collar and cuffs introduced in 1923, Philip et...
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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The Missile Will Always Get Through.
But who is prepared to admit it?
4 weeks ago
But who is prepared to admit it?
TheCollector
What Is Banksy’s Real Identity? (5 Scenarios)
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Heads to Auction
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4 months ago
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
Res Obscura
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
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7 months ago
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part II
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost...
7 months ago
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. Last week, we looked at the sources for Alexander’s life, the historiography (that is, the history-of-the-history) of his modern reception and...
Flashbak
Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
8 months ago
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
African History...
On Hegel's ignorance of African History
*my article for ROAPE journal
a year ago
*my article for ROAPE journal
Trying to Understand...
Externalising Our Hatreds.
It's Ukraine and Gaza. Again.
a year ago
It's Ukraine and Gaza. Again.
TheCollector
The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America
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Trying to Understand...
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a year ago
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
TheCollector
Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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The Prophecies of Merlin
The Prophecies of Merlin
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
8 months ago
The Prophecies of Merlin
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
TheCollector
What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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TheCollector
How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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The Great Depression in Europe: Here’s What Happened
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Classical Wisdom
On the Obscenity of Ovid
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& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
TheCollector
What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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TheCollector
Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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Classical Wisdom
Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay?
Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
7 months ago
Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
TheCollector
The History of Appalachia & Its People
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Flashbak
Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
3 months ago
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
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5 Women in Logic You Should Know
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Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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Wrong Side of...
Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
TheCollector
Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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When the US Senate Put Comic Books on Trial
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Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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Classical Wisdom
The Story of Thebes
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten...
a year ago
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit Niagara Falls?
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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TheCollector
Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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TheCollector
Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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Flashbak
Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s...
8 months ago
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
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What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It)
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
Niju,...
TheCollector
Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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Classical Wisdom
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Petra and Passports
a year ago
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Understanding 5 Famous Quotes by Descartes
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History Today Feed
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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Wed, 08/28/2024 - 11:18
4 months ago
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/28/2024 - 11:18
Res Obscura
Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s
Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
a year ago
Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
TheCollector
The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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African History...
The Mali empire: A complete history (ca. 1250-1650)
At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending...
10 months ago
At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending over an estimated 1.2 million square kilometers in West Africa. Encompassing at least five modern African states, the empire produced some of the continent's most renowned historical...
TheCollector
The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy?
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History Today Feed
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
JamesHoare
Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
JamesHoare
Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Where Did Paul Cezanne Live?
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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Dreams of Space -...
Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a...
a year ago
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a nice gift box with a space quiz. It is a little bit of an odd astronomy book. The illustration are very beautiful and if you notice each planet has smaller people in the picture to...
Trying to Understand...
A Strange Defeat.
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
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A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
Flashbak
Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
5 months ago
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
TheCollector
5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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TheCollector
Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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Classical Wisdom
Where to Stay While in Search of Homer?
***Only 15 Seats Left
2 months ago
History Today Feed
Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 08:38
4 months ago
Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 08:38
African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in...
2 months ago
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
TheCollector
Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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Leonora Carrington Painting Set to Quadruple Auction Record
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The 21st Amendment: The Only Amendment That Repealed Another
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Classical Wisdom
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Free Will Vs Determinism
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Urbanism and state building in the lake chad basin..
TheCollector
Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini: A Friendship Ruined by Ghosts
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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TheCollector
The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
a year ago
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
TheCollector
The Rise of Fascism in Italy & The Two “Black Years”
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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Classical Wisdom
Io Saturnalia!
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
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Celebrate the “Best of Days”
Classical Wisdom
Should We Be Skeptics?
Is it good to question everything?
9 months ago
Is it good to question everything?
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Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
a year ago
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Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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Who Won the Battle of Perryville?
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“I Have a Dream”: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Artists Expressed Concerns on Banning TikTok in the U.S.
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History Today Feed
History Today Review of the Year
History Today Review of the Year
j.hoare
Thu, 12/28/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
History Today Review of the Year
j.hoare
Thu, 12/28/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
Italian Artist Unveils Contemporary Version of Stolen Caravaggio
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4 days ago
Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures...
a year ago
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures the spirit of doing it for yourself as Johnny and his friends build (and dream of) a spaceship for a journey from their backyard. It is pure fantasy but as you will see there is a...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
8 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Twilight, updated our notes on chainplates, wheel to tiller conversion, cabin lights standing rigging replacement, Princess Louisa Inlet(added...
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Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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TheCollector
The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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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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African History...
Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper...
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In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper reported that “The king shows himself only once a year to his people, going out of his court on horseback, accompanied by three or four hundred noblemen on horseback.”
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
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.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
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What Is the Will to Power?
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What Was Négritude?
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9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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Pace Gallery to Represent Paul Thek Estate
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What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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Hundred Rabbits
tools ecosystem
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In...
over a year ago
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
TheCollector
4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi
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Trying to Understand...
Unlike For Like.
BRICS and how international institutions work.
2 months ago
BRICS and how international institutions work.
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
3 months ago
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
2 months ago
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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Trying to Understand...
Only Connect ....
We are lost in a haunted wood.
2 months ago
We are lost in a haunted wood.
TheCollector
10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
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10 Historic Hill Towns in Italy You Should Visit
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
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For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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5 Facts About Ukko, Finland’s Axe-Wielding God of Thunder
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Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
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For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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Why controlling for variables is insufficient
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A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
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The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
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The Political Effects of the Vietnam War
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What Is Thatcherism?
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6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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1939 is widely considered the greatest year in Hollywood history. Back then, writes 1939: The Year in Movies author Tom Flannery, the so-called “Big Eight” major American studios “had a combined 590 actors, 114 directors and 340 writers under contract, each of whom worked an...
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Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
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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...
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Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know
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Have A Weird Christmas With Our Album Of Vintage Photo Oddities
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There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E. Jackson’s phenomenal collection of snapshots we see all kinds of unusual goings on. One Christmas card features a photo of the sender covered in rats; on another a man canoodles a...
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Georgia: The Firework Protests : A Report and Video Footage from the Streets of Tbilisi
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Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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Racial Homicide Disparities Since 1910
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
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Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the evolution of black-white homicide disparities in the United States since the early 20th century.
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
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Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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The Angolan Civil War: 26 Years of Fighting
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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Have they any idea what they are talking about?
TheCollector
Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman...
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The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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Essential Greeks LIVE Webinar Times
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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2024: Out of the Frying Pan, into the Fire : The Year in Review
It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead....
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It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead. Here, we review the events of 2024 and our own contributions to the fight for a better world.
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British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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How Should We Look at History?
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Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
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What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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The Many Roads to Rome
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The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
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What Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard?
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Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
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Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
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What to do with Columbus?
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
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Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
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Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
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Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2024
Hey everyone!
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
Summary Of Changes
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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King John’s Lost Treasure
King John’s Lost Treasure
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Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
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King John’s Lost Treasure
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Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
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The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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In Search of Homer
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull
“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many...
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“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many inner city areas being bulldozed and instant slums being created on its outskirts. It seemed to have learnt nothing from the mistakes I had fought against during the previous decade...
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The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu?
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
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What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
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This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
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Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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What Is Populism?
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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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