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The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush
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10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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26 Found Photos of Australian Life In the 1970s
The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry...
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The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry Humphries (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) created Sir Les Patterson and made him Australia’s cultural ambassador. Drunk, lecherous and offensive, after Sir Les made his debut...
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Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
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Where to Stay While in Search of Homer?
***Only 15 Seats Left
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
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5 of Hildegard of Bingen’s Most Notable Works
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10 Historic Small Towns in Florida for Your Bucket List
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10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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Was Henry VIII Really a Protestant?
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1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
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“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
TheCollector
Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
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Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
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Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
How Did Socrates Die?
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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African History...
a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895.
Journal of African cities: chapter 13
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Journal of African cities: chapter 13
TheCollector
Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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Global Inequality...
Marx Truncated
A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
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A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
TheCollector
The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
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JamesHoare
Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
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‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:11
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:11
TheCollector
What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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7 months ago
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 1, 2023
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
a year ago
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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TheCollector
Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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TheCollector
6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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TheCollector
Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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TheCollector
Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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2 months ago
Trying to Understand...
War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
Understanding political violence.
a year ago
Understanding political violence.
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb)...
a year ago
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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TheCollector
Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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Flashbak
Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
7 months ago
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
TheCollector
10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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8 months ago
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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10 months ago
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
4 months ago
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
Elton John Collection Goes on Sale After 21 Years
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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Unveiling Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to Shakespeare’s Timeless Tragedy
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TheCollector
Frida Kahlo Exhibition Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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Classical Wisdom
The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly?
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Collector Chris Levett Is Selling His Huge Trove of Ancient Armor
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11 months ago
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The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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TheCollector
Michelangelo Scribble Sells For $200,000
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TheCollector
Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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Flashbak
It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970,...
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The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
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Hunter Biden Did Know Who Acquired His Art
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TheCollector
What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak?
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TheCollector
The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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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
TheCollector
What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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TheCollector
The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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a year ago
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
9 months ago
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
TheCollector
Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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Trying to Understand...
Things Are Falling Apart ...
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
a year ago
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
History Today Feed
Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 07:00
a year ago
Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 07:00
Classical Wisdom
How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
3 months ago
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
Dreams of Space -...
Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago....
a year ago
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
TheCollector
Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Julio-Claudians
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How the CCP is Closing China
How the CCP is Closing China
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
7 months ago
How the CCP is Closing China
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle on Luck
Do You Feel Lucky?
a year ago
African History...
Self-representation in African art: the wall paintings of medieval Nubia. (ca. 700-1400)
an African portrait of an African society
a year ago
an African portrait of an African society
TheCollector
What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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TheCollector
What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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TheCollector
Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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9 months ago
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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TheCollector
How Did Descartes View Animals?
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“I Have a Dream”: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Classical Wisdom
Will There Be “Crazy” People?
Symposium on the Seas...
10 months ago
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What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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Flashbak
Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those...
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“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
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Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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African History...
A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of...
4 months ago
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
TheCollector
7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
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9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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Flashbak
Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive...
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Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive that speaks of her talent as a street and press photographer, writer and collector, most notably of vintage dog photographs which now live at London’s Bishopsgate Institute. “Mine...
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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TheCollector
Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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a year ago
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?
TheCollector
Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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7 months ago
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
6 months ago
‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
TheCollector
An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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TheCollector
Louis XIV: History’s Longest-Reigning Monarch
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What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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TheCollector
UN Committee Votes Against “At Risk” Designation for Stonehenge
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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TheCollector
What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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Flashbak
Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
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Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
History Today Feed
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?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
Who Was Douglas Adams? The Iconic Science Fiction Writer
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor...
a year ago
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
TheCollector
6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
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TheCollector
The Balloon Museum Opens in London
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12 months ago
TheCollector
Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
a month ago
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
TheCollector
What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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a month ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
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Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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a year ago
TheCollector
Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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10 months ago
Flashbak
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin....
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
TheCollector
New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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10 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July
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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, added image maps, animation controls, and wrote a guide....
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Beneath the Waves...
a year ago
TheCollector
8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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