TheCollector
What Is a Medieval Morality Play?
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TheCollector
Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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TheCollector
Sotheby’s to Auction Its First Robot-Made Artwork
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TheCollector
17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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TheCollector
Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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TheCollector
Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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TheCollector
What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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Tjaart’s Substack
The curious case of the missing period
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
10 months ago
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
TheCollector
Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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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...
TheCollector
The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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African History...
a brief note on Africa in 16th century global history.
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
9 months ago
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
Trying to Understand...
La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique.
Another of my essays in French.
3 weeks ago
Another of my essays in French.
TheCollector
What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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TheCollector
6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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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....
TheCollector
10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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Classical Wisdom
Happy Birthday Marcus Aurelius!
A Celebration of Virtue
8 months ago
Res Obscura
When technology follows art
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the...
a year ago
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
TheCollector
A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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TheCollector
4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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TheCollector
Mudslinging & Negative Campaigning: A Look at US Election Dirty Tricks
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TheCollector
Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
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TheCollector
Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death
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What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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History Today Feed
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
11 months ago
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
TheCollector
Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder?
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TheCollector
Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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CrimethInc.
The Case for Resistance : What We’re Up Against—and What It Could Look Like to Fight
In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we...
a month ago
In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we can prepare to confront it. If you only have time to read one part, read the proposals for what we can do to resist.
It’s understandable that many people feel exhausted at the...
Flashbak
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
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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,...
TheCollector
What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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TheCollector
Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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TheCollector
How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Georgian Wine: The World’s Oldest Wine Producer in 4 Great Wineries
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
A Clash Of Symbols
They are quite serious, actually.
a year ago
They are quite serious, actually.
TheCollector
The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
2 months ago
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
History Today Feed
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
a year ago
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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Flashbak
Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he...
10 months ago
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he first spotted at a swap meet in Pasadena, California. We don’t know who took these photographs of David Bowie backstage, James Brown meeting and greeting the fans and many other...
TheCollector
Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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TheCollector
What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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TheCollector
How Did Socrates Die?
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
a year ago
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
Lion Weekly was a magazine for children with comics and stories. (from Wikipedia...
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
over a year ago
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
A Collection of...
Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
a year ago
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
TheCollector
What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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TheCollector
Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
9 months ago
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the performance of the Roman army and its legions in the third and second century BC against the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we sought to assess some of...
TheCollector
Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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TheCollector
How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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TheCollector
6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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TheCollector
The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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History Today Feed
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
8 months ago
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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Classical Wisdom
How Should We Look at History?
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
9 months ago
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
Classical Wisdom
Do You Listen Well?
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
a year ago
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
TheCollector
How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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TheCollector
What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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TheCollector
Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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TheCollector
Iakim Volkov’s Wedding: An Illustration of a Complicated History
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Flashbak
Stock Car Racing in 1972
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in...
a month ago
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
TheCollector
Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Oregon Worth Visiting
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TheCollector
A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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a year ago
Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
a month ago
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull.
TheCollector
King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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Res Obscura
The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
a year ago
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
TheCollector
5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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TheCollector
Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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TheCollector
David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya
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TheCollector
The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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TheCollector
Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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TheCollector
Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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TheCollector
What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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TheCollector
What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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10 months ago
Global Inequality...
The life of Maynard K.
A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
6 months ago
A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
TheCollector
Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
a year ago
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
TheCollector
The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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TheCollector
Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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9 months ago
Global Inequality...
Would Lenin have approved of the IMF?
An indispensable organization
a month ago
An indispensable organization
TheCollector
A Video Interview with Luis Royo: TheCollector Chats with Fantasy Artist
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TheCollector
The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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TheCollector
Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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TheCollector
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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a year ago
TheCollector
Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
The Sense Of An Ending.
But right back where we started from.
4 months ago
But right back where we started from.
TheCollector
Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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TheCollector
Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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TheCollector
Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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TheCollector
What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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TheCollector
Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million
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History Today Feed
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
9 months ago
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
TheCollector
5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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TheCollector
10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
‘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
4 months ago
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
TheCollector
Fall of Constantinople (1453): The Siege That Changed the World
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TheCollector
5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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5 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
7 months ago
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
TheCollector
4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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TheCollector
What is the Eye of Ra?
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Flashbak
Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it...
3 weeks ago
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it possible not only to analyse such visual wonders as the Parthenon in terms of music theory, but also to identify their corresponding musical harmonies and melodies, writes Carmel...
TheCollector
6 Crazy Facts about Cape Town
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/26/2023 - 00:00
12 months ago
‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/26/2023 - 00:00
Trying to Understand...
The Threat of Back to Normal
Global power has always been distributed.
a year ago
Global power has always been distributed.
TheCollector
Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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TheCollector
Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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3 months ago
Open Culture
Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Kids–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK...
I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a...
4 days ago
I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a cold and grim Christmas in 1977, that’s exactly what happened. While many Britons were settling in for a warm yuletide, the Pistols decided to host a party/benefit for the...
TheCollector
5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as...
a year ago
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
TheCollector
How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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TheCollector
The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show
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Flashbak
‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres...
a year ago
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
TheCollector
Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
over a year ago
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
'If we can't...
History Today Feed
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
2 months ago
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
Classical Wisdom
Events Listing
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
a year ago
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
TheCollector
Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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3 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959)
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
a month ago
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
Space Witch is a pleasant story about a witch who wants to expand her frightening to creatures on other planets. She constructs a "space broom" and a...
TheCollector
6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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TheCollector
The Sand Creek Massacre: A Horrific Tale of Betrayal & Greed
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TheCollector
How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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TheCollector
Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
The world according to Garegnani
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar...
7 months ago
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
TheCollector
What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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TheCollector
Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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TheCollector
Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Rediscovered Quentin Metsys Madonna Heads to Auction
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Who Was Julian?
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
a year ago
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
History Today Feed
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
a year ago
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
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...
Classical Wisdom
ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints
New Cabins *NOW* Available
8 months ago
New Cabins *NOW* Available
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
7 months ago
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
African History...
A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
a year ago
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
TheCollector
Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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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
a year ago
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
TheCollector
The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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Trying to Understand...
The Newer World Order.
But can they get their heads round it?
10 months ago
But can they get their heads round it?
TheCollector
What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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TheCollector
Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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TheCollector
French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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TheCollector
From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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TheCollector
Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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Wrong Side of...
Your favourite half-British president
We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
a month ago
We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
TheCollector
Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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TheCollector
Thefts From Heritage Sites in the U.K. Are Rising
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TheCollector
The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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TheCollector
Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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TheCollector
Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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TheCollector
How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)
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TheCollector
3 Beautiful Places in the North of England Tourists Tend to Neglect
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TheCollector
Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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TheCollector
4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
TheCollector
What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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TheCollector
Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
10 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added galley refit, updated lifelines, seamed box cushions, and moisture prevention underliner.
Permacomputing, revamped the page.
Flappy Bird,...
TheCollector
Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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TheCollector
What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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TheCollector
Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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TheCollector
What Is an Antipope?
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TheCollector
What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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3 weeks ago
History Today Feed
The Search for the Historical Buddha
The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
11 months ago
The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
TheCollector
7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
8 months ago
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
Flashbak
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....
TheCollector
6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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TheCollector
The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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TheCollector
Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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Beware the Lides of March
Beware the Lides of March
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
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Beware the Lides of March
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Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
TheCollector
What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
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And some bits and pieces of news.
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5 Quotes by Sartre Explained: What These Words Mean for Us Today
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Open Culture
The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
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Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
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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...
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“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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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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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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Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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Exploring Soviet Brutalism Through 9 Iconic Buildings
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What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes:...
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Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. – William Shakespeare, The Tempest, illustrated by Arthur Rackham 1926 Arthur...
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American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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A Collection of...
Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
a month ago
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
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The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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Who Were the Axis Powers?
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The Mystery of the Mind
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Forgotten Gods
Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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What Are the 4 Main Jewish Sects?
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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
5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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African History...
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an African portrait of an African society
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an African portrait of an African society
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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African History...
A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD
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Journal of African cities chapter 6
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Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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Calling Time on BC and AD
Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
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Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
TheCollector
Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Dreams of Space -...
Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older...
a year ago
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older children.
From the German Wikipedia site (translated) : "The New Universe is a German children's literature series with themes in the fields of knowledge , research , adventure and...
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Stained Glass Sold At Sotheby’s is Stolen From Notre Dame?
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Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments?
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A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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Cimabue Fresco Restored to its Original Glory
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How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigrant assimilation in Denmark
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A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
TheCollector
4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
10 months ago
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are...
over a year ago
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
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a year ago
In politics, well, it depends.
TheCollector
Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America
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Hundred Rabbits
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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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no...
11 months ago
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no point in trying to achieve anything else in life. As he put it: “If it’s not fun, there’s no point!” A new book of his conceptual photographs illustrates the point. Above, you can see...
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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What Is the Origin of Cowpox (& How Did It Cure Smallpox)?
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made...
a year ago
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
History Today Feed
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
a year ago
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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6 Surrealist Techniques You Probably Haven’t Heard of
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The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February...
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Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis appeared with many artists, including Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy...
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What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller...
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“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller before the writer torched his Christmas Tree In January 1990, Sam Allis was on assignment for TIME magazine at writer Hunter S. Thompson’s (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) home...
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/24/2024 - 10:22
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/24/2024 - 10:22
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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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Does Free Will Exist?
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Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
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Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
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Tiffany Stained Glass Window Poised to Set New Auction Record
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Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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Who Was Django Reinhardt?
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Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV...
10 months ago
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
Open Culture
Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further...
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A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further sightings in various locations in the region have been lodged on a daily basis, and anxieties about the origin and purpose of these unidentified flying objects have grown apace. “We...
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added charging electronics, solar cooking and solar...
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it...
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“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
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How Are Art and Science Related?
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 -...
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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Tue, 03/26/2024 - 09:54
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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10 Small but Historic Countries You Didn’t Know About
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know
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Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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